(1). Go to your nearest fabric store and purchase the sheerest (light in weight) cotton fabric in the appropriate color (Cobalt Blue?)
(2). At your local Walmart or other grocery store, purchase a bottle of liquid starch.
(3). Cut the fabric to fit your window pane/panes.
(4). Completely wet the fabric with the starch.
(5). Apply the starched fabric to window pane/panes.
(6). Use a sponge to apply more liquid starch as needed to spread the fabric seamlessly over the window pane/panes.
(7). Bubbles and creases can be burnished (pressed)out by applying pressure to the wet fabric with the sponge and stretching it out completely flat.
The fabric will dry and stay in place indefinitely! If it starts to detatch, just apply more starch to that area that is detatching and wa-lah, good as new! When dirty, just remove, wash and reattatch the same way. Hope this helps. You can use this technique to cover just about anything with fabric.
Using blue light for "light therapy"
As you probably know, there's a version of depression called "Seasonal Affective Disorder" (SAD), or "winter depression". This kind of depression -- which is very common in people with Bipolar II -- can be treated with light. Plain old light will do, but in some parts of the country in December plain old light is hard to come by So several decades ago researchers studied whether sitting in front of a bank of lights for 30-60 minutes might help reverse the seasonal sag in mood, and found that indeed some people seemed to respond very well. In the most recent study of "light therapy", sitting in front of a box of light every morning during a Canadian winter was as effective as fluoxetine (Prozac).
But the light needed for this, from a suitcase-sized "light box", was hard to get: insurance companies almost never pay for these boxes, which are expensive, usually around $250-300. They are not very portable.
However, now a very small light box is available for around $140 (e.g. from Costco last winter) that's much more portable, so you can use it where you happen to be in the morning. The key was finding just the right wavelength of light for this purpose, which allowed the box to be much smaller. I hope you already know, from the story above, what wavelength that is: blue light -- the striped peak in the graph above, which comes from the manufacturer's website (I have no financial connection to that manufacturer, and get no gain from telling you this story. I'm telling it here because I think it's a great story, and because understanding it may help people get an effective treatment they might not have considered otherwise).
This little light box has been tested for effectiveness just as the older bigger light boxes have, and shown to be superiorGlickman to the "control" condition -- a dim red light, admittedly not the greatest control condition, but this research has been hard to do, coming up with a plausible "placebo" treatment. A better test would be a comparison of the blue light versus white light, which might be more plausible as a placebo, as the older light boxes emit a white light. That study has been done, and the blue light was superior (not yet published, the manufacturer tells me, as of June 2006). The best test would be a head-to-head study of the little blue one versus one of the older big ones, which we know from years of research are truly better than a placebo. But the blue-light manufacturers have little incentive to do that study (what if theirs was not as good?), so we're not likely to see that research unless one of the manufacturers of the old light box pays for it!
link http://www.psycheducation.org/depression/BlueLight.htm
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EC: Sorry to say, this book has been out of print a long time! Best bet is to locate it online through an antique book seller. The only health section in the book is the section we typed out here (the rest is scientific discourse on sunlight), so you might be disappointed once you have the book in your possession!
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After reading your online Gen. A.J. Pleasanton book, I immediately sought some blue glass but had to settle for painted glass and then blue transparent sheets wrapped around glass.
I am fighting a 2-1/2 year Zoster shingles PHN virus infection, and though there has been no immediate improvement in my condition, I am going to pursue this because of the extreme pain and the fact that pain medications do not stop pain, but do make me dizzy.
For explanation, Dr. Douglass (following Dinshah's method) uses different colors with light from either a flashlight or lamp, and uses different colors (and combinations) for different diseases.
I have used both methods, but have used Gen. Pleasonton's only twice, and will email you when I see some definite improvement.
It is not easy to find colored glass; such glass is all 1/4" thick, and of a rather small size. Only for Gen. Pleasanton's method have I used the sun for energy, but I think sunlight is necessary. (Both Dinshah and Dr. Douglass have had success, however, using flashlights and lamps.)
EC: Geraldine, thank you so writing in about this remedy. We are thrilled (to say the least) that someone is testing it! Hopefully many more people will try the blue glass and sunlight therapy so we can eventually get a feel for whether this is an effective remedy.
P.S. If anyone finds an online source for blue glass, please let us know.
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acrylic paint. I will thin it out a bit to get more transparency. Also, you can liquify powdered cornstarch which is much cheaper than the ready-made liquid starch. Same stuff. I am looking forward to seeing benefits from this. I have been having a "healing crisis". My skin is bright red and scaly from detoxing the wrong way. I will let people here know if it helps.
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EC: Yes, in fact this is exactly what we had at home growing up -- a piece of cobalt blue glass in wooden frame. Otherwise, it's just too complicated!
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EC: Read all about blue glass on sunlight therapy on our site! You won't find much about this therapy elsewhere on the internet... https://www.earthclinic.com/remedies/blue_and_sunlight_therapy.html
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Joyce, thanks for mentioning the bottles of water in sunlight. I have blue medicine bottles I saved from artic fish oil and before I moved had also intended to start experiments with them. Because of some of the new discoveries about water that have recently been made available, besides using color I will be writing on the bottle or taping a note to it regarding what results I wish to create with the water.
Thanks to Dr. Emoto's now well-known work with water chrystals, we have known for some time that water can read and can be programmed - in essence it can communicate. New discoveries lead me to believe this may have to do with the hydrogen in the water. There is an amazing 9-part video available on youtube called Water-The Great Mystery in which are detailed research being conducted by scientists around the world and their findings. I highly recommend it and gives much to contemplate on exactly what is happening as we learn to use these tools, as well as generating new things to try. I have done some experimenting with water in areas besides health and have been astounded at what can be accomplished. Happy Pioneering!
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